FrreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit

Why last mile leads charge for EV adoption (with video)

Bob Stojanovic of ABB (left) and Chris Nordh of Ryder discuss the future of electric vehicles in last mile logistics during FreightWaves’ Last Mile Logistics Summit.

Despite the hype surrounding the Tesla Semi truck, the future for electric vehicles in the transportation and logistics industry seems to be coming sooner and on a larger scale for fleets serving the last mile. Case in point: Amazon’s order for 100,000 customized electric delivery vehicles produced by Rivian. 

“It just makes so much sense for an electric vehicle with that stop-and-go application and that high idle time, inner-city traffic kind of environments,” said Chris Nordh, senior director...

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Cargill urging regulators to seek last-mile metrics from railroads (with video)

Responding to pressure to be more transparent about their service performance following the major railroad mergers of the 1990s, the freight railroads began providing shippers and regulators weekly data on metrics such as rail car velocity and terminal dwell times.

But one measure that they haven’t been providing, asserts an executive at one of the country’s largest agribusiness companies, is how well they’ve been performing against the promise of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR), an...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargill-urging-regulators-to-seek-last-mile-metrics-from-railroads-with-video